"Ugh, why am I so unlucky?"
Walking along the deserted road, Duanmu Huai sighed constantly. The reason for his sighing was simple: the girls currently traveling beside him.
Unlike Duanmu Huai, who was walking on his own two legs, Naruse Mio and Maria, Akemi Homura, and Kigara were each riding a horse. After all, they were all girls; they couldn't possibly walk all the way to Stormwind City.
And the problem lay with their mounts.
After purifying the northern lands earlier, the Night Watch had brought Duanmu Huai some spoils of war. Most of them were useless to him, but two items caught his attention: the Headless Horseman's Reins and the Death Warhorse's Reins.
According to Ann's appraisal, they were magical items. As long as magic was infused into them, they could summon magical mounts.
Duanmu Huai had tried them himself at first. Well, how should he put it... Standing upright, his legs were taller than the horse's head. Although he could bend his knees and sit in a squat, and the magical mount wouldn't be crushed under his weight, it still looked... ridiculous.
It even reminded Duanmu Huai of Starscourge General Radahn, whom he had encountered in the Interlands. Radahn had ridden a pony even skinnier and weaker than himself while rampaging everywhere, so Duanmu Huai decisively gave up. He didn't want to look like that idiot Radahn. Radahn was insane, so he didn't care, but Duanmu Huai wasn't insane yet. If he curled himself up and rode such a tiny horse into battle, wouldn't everyone take him for a fool?
Besides, they were magical mounts. Why couldn't they change size according to their users?
In the end, Duanmu Huai had no choice but to give the two sets of reins to Naruse Mio and Kigara. They both had